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SQL is about as easy as it gets in the world of programming, and yet its learning curve is still steep enough to prevent many people from interacting with relational databases. 'Show me all the records that I want to see.' Hmph, Must be broken.
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The color of the database: [Cartoon]
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Orange is the new Black WHERE AI is the same ole SQL.
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Quote: in natural language
Which has proved itself insufficient many many times.
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Quote: 'Show me all the records that I want to see'
... or Bob off.
OK, "Bob off" it is then. 
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So what's the plain English equivalent of CROSS APPLY, I wonder?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I think pressing the red cross at the top-right 
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Quote from the article: In practice this means that you could simply ask who the winningest team in college football is and an appropriate database could be automatically queried to tell you that it is in fact the University of Michigan.
And 'winningest' is an example of a Natural Language word? I'm thinkingest it is not. At least the words in SQL are based on a real language (English).
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There is no steep learning curve for SQL. Anyone can learn it within a month 
It is also not meant to be used by end-users. You stay out of the database if you did not learn the theory.
..and no, I'm not interested in the sales-pitch for another query-language that is going to magically solve all problems. Here, in the real world, we use SQL92.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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We've updated WinDbg to have more modern visuals, faster windows, a full-fledged scripting experience, built with the easily extensible debugger data model front and center. Debugger: they added a ribbon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: they added a ribbon
...and Clippy! "It looks like you're writing a web app!"
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Oh, you had to go there. Just wait for the next item...
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just wait for the next item
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The Lindy effect says that what’s been around the longest is likely to remain around the longest. "We don’t know what language engineers will be coding in in the year 2100. However, we do know that it will be called FORTRAN."
Yes, that's in the article, but it's a great quote.
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More like: It'll cost them a FORTUNE to find someone to use FORTRAN.
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If we flood the market with FORTRAN developers now, they'll still be cheap in 2100.
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New experiments with helium-3 in a magnetic confinement tokamak have produced exciting results for the future of fusion energy, including a tenfold increase in ion energy. "Power to the people!"
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Tomorrow's news today: "Cambridge blown off the map".
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The enterprise middleware landscape is shifting dramatically, with organizations pursuing a variety of paths — in both specialized managed services and DYI iPaaS packaged software – to get to the common destination of cloud-enabled middleware. It's true - I've switched from a belt to suspenders for my middlewear
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Okay, I give up. With a little research, I've discovered that "iPaaS" is a pug-ugly acronym for "integration platform as a service" but DYI is obviously something so innovative that nobody else knows what it is. Maybe it's just shorthand for Doesn't Yet Indicate Anything.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Double Your Insanity
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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At least it is not: Dude You're Idiot
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I think that was supposed to be DIY.
Maybe it means 'Dunderheaded Yabbling[^] Inside'?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Software might be eating the world, but most businesses are sitting out the feeding frenzy because they can’t release software fast enough to meet changing customer needs. Mental note: stop using real intelligence to write software and use the artificial kind
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to meet changing customer needs.
Or is that "to fix bugs customers found" and "to meet existing customer needs because we were so off target the first time?"
Speaking only for myself, most of my needs (with regards to software!) originate from a crappy, buggy, tool/website that I have to use. My core needs for what I want the app to do doesn't change.
Now, granted, there's always that fun discovery phase when the customer sees their data in a different way and realizes they could do other things with it, reporting, etc. But once that "honeymoon phase" has stabilized, it's all maintenance, baby.
Marc
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